5 members of the Landslide Group and the Engineering Geology Group were certified by Advanced Climbing Solutions for their climbing work on rock faces - the final day of training was performed at the… [read more]

Sibylle conducted field work doing a seismic survey on the Eibsee lake, which has been formed by a massive rock avalanche 3700 years ago, in cooperation with Prof. Flavio Anselmetti (University of… [read more]

As TUM MSc Engineering Geology students use modern field data collection tools for their landslide mapping course, Fulcrum is now blogging about our work. The advantages by using their application are… [read more]

The German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes e.V.) has approved funding for our PhD student and teaching assistant Sibylle Knapp (left person on picture above). The… [read more]

Late last summer two videos appeared documenting spectacular fractures forming in bedrock at locations in both California and Finland. Kerry Leith joined members of the Geological Survey of Finland… [read more]

A large landslide last week is thought to have killed over 2000 people from the village of Ab Barek in north-eastern Afghanistan. This is one of the worst landslide disasters of recent years, a timely… [read more]

The 2015 General Assembly of the EGU will again be a busy time for members of the Landslide Research Group. As well as ten oral and poster presentations during the conference (links to all the… [read more]

The Earth Surface Processes and Landforms special issue was guest edited by Michael Krautblatter (TUM) and Jeffrey R. Moore (Univ. of Utah). The issue contains 15 articles discussing state of the art… [read more]

Erosion in alpine landscapes occurs as a result of processes such as glaciation, cracking of rocks through freeze/thaw action, rockfall and landsliding, and river erosion. In a new study due to be… [read more]

As part of the XII IAEG congress in Torino (Italy) Milos Marjanovic co-chaired a session on Advanced landslide field instrumentation and monitoring. The session gathered multidisciplinary researchers… [read more]